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Hydroponic Lights are an essential element for planting and maintaining a successful hydroponics indoor garden. Sunlight is not always available for your plants. Sometimes you need to provide a better solution to get the maximum results from your Hydroponic Plants.

Growing plants in a wholly unnatural environment, you will want to make sure that all the different elements are given to the plants. One of the most important elements of course is light.  Plants take the light and turn it into energy using a process called photosynthesis. This is not just an option, it a necessity and will ensure that you have plants that thrive. Luckily there are ways to trick plants into thinking that they have been given all the light they need, and for this you will need Grow Light Systems.

When you grow any plant indoors you will need to make sure that you provide a excellent light source for your plants. The light that you provide directly affects the plants health and is the difference between poor quality plants and healthy plants.

During the growth phase of your plants, you will want to provide them with a combination of blue and red color temperature lights. Since the most common and effective indoor gardening grow light hydroponic systems today are based on metal halide and high pressure sodium, you can try getting both types of lights, or a system that lets you switch between the two.

Fluorescent Grow Lights are fine for some situations, and in fact, we recommend them for seedlings and low-light plants. Unfortunately, fluorescent just can’t deliver the strong light you need to grow plants taller than 6 - 8″.  Unless you’re using BIG LUMEN OUTPUT T-5 lighting, T-5s are strong enough to grow under all the way from seed to harvest.

T5 Fluorescent Systems are great for house plants, seedling starts, flowers - anything you want to grow indoors. Low profile - only 2-3/8″ tall High lumen output and very low heat Super value Lightweight.

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Welcome to our new Blog where we will try to give some helpful tidbits and tips for all you hydroponics growers. We’re new at Blogging, so if you can help us by giving us some subjects you’d like us to post about please let us know. 

Where to start with your Hydro Garden?

Well, as the name implies, Hydroponics starts with water.  You must have an adequate water supply for your garden.  Hydroponics systems like Emily’s Garden are good for getting started and growing a small amount of plants. For a more ambitious undertaking and bigger plants you will want to make sure you have plenty of water.  Larger reservoirs are needed and they typically make it easier to balance the PH.

As far as the water supply goes; the options and opinions vary but the general concensus is that you can’t go wrong with an RO (reverse osmosis) system for your hydroponic garden, as long as you provide the correct measurment of nutrients.   You want to add a good, high quality, hydroponic nutrient solution supplying your plants with the proper nutrients in the correct ratios.

Your hydroponics store should be able to tell you exactly which nutrients you need for your type of  system and water supply.